Improvement in combined table knives and spoons



J'. HIGGINS. COMBINED TABLE-KNIFE AND SPOON,

Patente. Feb.-Z9,1876

UNITED STATES PA ENT OFFIC JAMEs HIGGINs, OF DETROIT, MIoHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED TABLE KNIVES AND SPOONS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,241, dated February 29, 1876 application filed '1 January 15, 1876.

I To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES HIGGINS. of Detroit, Wayne county, Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Oombined Table-Knife and Spoon, of which the following is a specification: I

My invention consists of a spoon-boWl-shaned cavity formed in the blade of a table-knife, near the point of the blade, but without destroying the integrity of the edge, point, and

- back of the blade, so that the blade remains in suitable form for its functions as a blade,

and at the same time it combines a spoon-bowl useful for liquid or semi-liquid food, sometimes occurring more or less with solid food, and for A which spoons are not commonly used.

The drawing is a side view of a combined table-knife and spoon of my invention.

A is the blade, and B the spoon-bowl, the

former being of any common orapproved kind, and the latter being a cavity formed in the blade by striking or pressing it in dies to the required shape, care being taken to preserve JAMES IEUGrGrINS.

Witnesses:

- FRED. E. FARNSWORTH, STEPHEN J. MARTIN. 

